Steve Yegge

# Steve Yegge Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/13/steve-yegge/ 13th April 2026 Steve Yegge (https://twitter.com/steve_yegge/status/2043747998740689171): > I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption\. Craziest convo I've had all year\. The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the same AI adoption footprint as John Deere, the tractor company\. Most of the industry has the same internal adoption curve: 20% agentic power users, 20% outright refusers, 60% still using Cursor or equivalent chat tool\. It turns out Google has this curve too\. \[\.\.\.\] There has been an industry\-wide hiring freeze for 18\+ months, during which time nobody has been moving jobs\. So there are no clued\-in people coming in from the outside to tell Google how far behind they are, how utterly mediocre they have become as an eng org\. Addy Osmani (https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/2043812343508021460): > On behalf of @Google, this post doesn't match the state of agentic coding at our company\. Over 40K SWEs use agentic coding weekly here\. Googlers have access to our own versions of @antigravity, @geminicli, custom models, skills, CLIs and MCPs for our daily work\. Orchestrators, agent loops, virtual SWE teams and many other systems are actively available to folks\. \[\.\.\.\] Demis Hassabis (https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/2043867486320222333): > Maybe tell your buddy to do some actual work and to stop spreading absolute nonsense\. This post is completely false and just pure clickbait\.